Monday, February 21, 2011

Gerry in Japan - Tokyo

As you can probably gather from the previous posts, we didn't actually spend much time in Tokyo itself. This was mainly because there were more interesting family activities outside of Tokyo itself. Which isn't to say that there wasn't anything to do in Tokyo or that we didn't spend any time there.

On the last day, we went to a Toy Kingdom where, after paying the entry fee, Gerry was allowed to spend several hours playing with whatever he liked inside the Kingdom. There were a huge variety of different toys which he could choose from. However, he didn't actually get to see most of them as he was captivated by the toy trains right from the start and didn't want to leave after he got started.


Here you can see him pushing his trains around. The trains themselves are battery powered but he preferred to push them manually. Never realised that he was a control freak until now.


To be fair to Gerry, the toy trains were actually the most popular section among boys - which you can see reflected in this picture.


Gerry with the full setup. Other than the elevated ring section, Gerry built the entire thing himself.


And after a hard day of playing, what better to top it off than a snack! Gerry is eating a crepe filled with cream and chocolate (and his mouth doesn't stay that clean for long!).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Japan looks like a nice family holiday location. Run into any language problems?

Jokemeister said...

It is a really good family holiday location. Very clean, friendly and well mannered (although, bear in mind, we were able to avoid rush hour). Expensive, but lots of fun.

Language is a real issue though as very few people speak English. In one instance, this wasn't a huge issue as they had someone on hand who could speak mandarin. However, most of the time, it was just a case of using hand signals and hoping for the best!